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A factory worker returns home to Sicily, where he gets mixed up with the Mob.

Antonio Badalamenti, supervisor in a factory in Milan, leaves with his wife and two daughters for a vacation in his native Sicily, taking along a package from his company manager to Don Vincenzo, an important man in Colanzano, Badalamenti's hometown. There is a joyous family reunion, but Badalamenti's wife is uneasy with the Sicilians. Badalamenti visits Don Vincenzo, for whom he was once an errand boy. He delivers the package and is invited on a hunting trip. When he arrives for the trip, Don Vincenzo reminds him of his indebtedness to him and asks Badalamenti to deliver a letter for him. He agrees and then is shut up in a crate and flown to the United States. Released from the crate, he finds himself among Italian-American gangsters. He delivers the letter, learns that he is selected to shoot a certain person, and is shown films to help him identify his victim. Horrified, he agrees to the murder, knowing that his wife and children will be unsafe if he refuses. Driven to a barbershop, he kills the man and then is immediately flown back to Sicily. He is repentent of his crime, but, knowing the Mafia law of "silence or death," he returns with his family to Milan and resumes his normal existence.